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ALE Join In, as Edith Day’s BBC programme of Popular Entertainment was rather optimistically called, left me wondering how many people really do sing lustily to the strains of the wiréless on such occasions. Even if one is more favoured than the old lady of Sheen (who said it was Odd, but she couldn’t tell God Savé the Weasel from Pop Goes the Queen), one would have to sing very softly with one ear engaged in self-appraisal and the ‘other anxiously on the radio. One could, of course, turn up the volume and thereby commit nuisance and antagonise one’s neighbours. But I wonder if the hearty organisers of such programmes have ever tried it themselves, or even thought about it seriously from the point of view of the listener. If they had, they would surely choose a chorus rather than soloists with individual ideas, and their choice of songs would be in the Ten Green Bottles class. Then one might be reasonably sure of finishing the last ‘verse at approximately the same time as the leaders, and not be left carolling into the darkness alone.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 17
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187Unison Please New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 17
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